The Psychedelic Mind (page 10)

tetrapod.sapien

Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness - T. McKenna

hey frankie!

sorry about never getting back to you. i left the thread for a while.

man, i have never partook of the sacrament you mention. but wow, i would love to talk with you about it. i have been reading about trip experiences and what researchers believe is going on in the brain of a person who chooses to bathe his/her calcified pineal in more DMT, LOL. i am pretty sure i will partake sometime in the near future. i was going to go the mimosa hostilis root bark route.

ego death. yes. or like i call it: rapid ego minimization. lsd showed me that it was a path i could take in life by stripping me of the weight for a period of time (among other things). and of course, now i work towards it without the aid of lsd. terrence mckenna has also detailed some of the correlations between lsd experience and mahayana buddhism. it's still all hard for me to put into words, since as you know, the experiences come from a place that is languageless.

i know that DMT, while classified as a psychedelic experience, is going to be qualitatively different than lsd. but i look forward to it. or perhaps backwards to it?

some people say that i have "changed" since i partook of these other sacraments (lsd, ganja etc). when i question them further as to what they mean, they usually admit that it's not that i became a "bad" person. but just that i'm "different", perhaps not as "normal".

and that i am so very grateful for.

becoming,

tetra

frankiespeakin

Timothy Leary:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6944322121257997276&q=timothy+leary&total=241&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

Royal Rose

For god's sake, don't ever try that. I work with schools children and things I've seen would never wish on my worst enemy. It is heartbreaking seeing haw few substances can so effectively destroy someone's life. Hallucinogenic drugs drugs have devastating effect, even many years later. Even in mild cases you see a lot of disillusionment, anxiety, lack of trust, constant fear of being hurt, and overall decline in intellectual abilities. But more often you see these in pathological extent combined with weakened metabolism so you are target to any and every god forsaken virus or bacteria that is out there. Often you see a lot of kidney and liver failure and in extreme cases even tumors and cancers because your body can't fight it. I don't really think it is worth ruining your whole life for few moments of ecstasy

GetBusyLiving

There is a tree outside of our condo that massaged my entire sphere of vision for a little while as I was tripping on shrooms tonight. It was breathing and the colors and edges of the nature of this thing just truly knocked me out. I'll never forget the dreary shadow over that tree as the sun was obscured by a passing cloud. It was a terrific experience.

GBL

nvrgnbk

There is a tree outside of our condo that massaged my entire sphere of vision for a little while as I was tripping on shrooms tonight. It was breathing and the colors and edges of the nature of this thing just truly knocked me out. I'll never forget the dreary shadow over that tree as the sun got obscured by a passing cloud. It was a terrific experience.
GBL

Thanks for sharing that brother. I think it's time for me to GetBusyLiving too!

Glad you got to visit a new place.